What are some of the rules you will try when you are a teacher full time?
How do you react to the definitions and guidelines for engaging students?
What strategies are you using to engage your students? To disengage your students?
When I am a full-time teacher, I would like to employ as little rules as possible due to the dynamic mix of students and their varying personalities and needs.
Students should arrive to class on time and be prepared with the tools needed for class. I feel that it is important to explain the purpose of each rule to the students as they are made. There are many expectations that I have for my students such at respect for others, but these will not be considered rules.
School rules that have been established by the school itself, should of course be followed. However, I feel that you really need to know your class before you establish any set classroom rules, and rules should be customized for each class.
I feel that school rules should be strictly enforced only when concerning student safety. An example of this would be during labs where harmful tools or materials may be used.
Example of class rules:
Arrive to class on-time
When teachers or other students are speaking to the class, give them your attention and be respectful
Arrive to class prepared with the proper materials (book, notebook, pen/pencil)
Never leave the classroom without notifying the teacher
Follow all safety regulations when working in the lab
Concerning the piece on student engagement, I agree that students will more like complete the tasks at hand unhindered if they are engaged. Students should feel autonomy in the classroom and should feel responsible for their learning. Teachers should scaffold students and foster qualities such as intrinsic motivation, maturity, and responsibility.
To engage students I:
Open a lesson with something that the students can relate to or are interested in
Ask open-ended questions that require exploration and problem solving to arrive at the answer
Turn the lesson into a game of time (provide a timer and tell students that they must work to beat the clock)
Introduce a lesson that allows the students to determine how it is instructed (inquiry)
To disengage students:
Sound a buzzer or musical alarm of some sort
Stop speaking and wait for students to take notice
Write a message like "quiet please" on the board and wait for students to take notice
Nice rationale for getting to know students before establishing specific rules. I also admire your point about the need for teachers to scaffold qualities such as intrinsic motivation and responsible behavior. How do your strategies for engagement work toward this? - fogleman
When I am a full-time teacher, I would like to employ as little rules as possible due to the dynamic mix of students and their varying personalities and needs.
Students should arrive to class on time and be prepared with the tools needed for class. I feel that it is important to explain the purpose of each rule to the students as they are made. There are many expectations that I have for my students such at respect for others, but these will not be considered rules.
School rules that have been established by the school itself, should of course be followed. However, I feel that you really need to know your class before you establish any set classroom rules, and rules should be customized for each class.
I feel that school rules should be strictly enforced only when concerning student safety. An example of this would be during labs where harmful tools or materials may be used.
Example of class rules:
- Arrive to class on-time
- When teachers or other students are speaking to the class, give them your attention and be respectful
- Arrive to class prepared with the proper materials (book, notebook, pen/pencil)
- Never leave the classroom without notifying the teacher
- Follow all safety regulations when working in the lab
Concerning the piece on student engagement, I agree that students will more like complete the tasks at hand unhindered if they are engaged. Students should feel autonomy in the classroom and should feel responsible for their learning. Teachers should scaffold students and foster qualities such as intrinsic motivation, maturity, and responsibility.To engage students I:
- Open a lesson with something that the students can relate to or are interested in
- Ask open-ended questions that require exploration and problem solving to arrive at the answer
- Turn the lesson into a game of time (provide a timer and tell students that they must work to beat the clock)
- Introduce a lesson that allows the students to determine how it is instructed (inquiry)
To disengage students:Nice rationale for getting to know students before establishing specific rules. I also admire your point about the need for teachers to scaffold qualities such as intrinsic motivation and responsible behavior. How do your strategies for engagement work toward this? -